Progesterone

Description

Progesterone is an endogenous steroid and progestogen sex hormone involved in the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and embryogenesis of humans and other species.

Progesterone structure, image from PubChem

Alternative names

• P4
• Agolutin
• Luteohormone
• Crinone
• Pregn-4-ene-3
• 20-dione

Usage Notes

Primarily used for maturation of oocytes or for driving hormone inducible expression constructs.

References

• NCBI PubChem CID:5994

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